Course Evaluation

Organizations and Cultures

The course Organizations and Cultures is a very interesting course and which is important for our studies due to the closer look it gives to the importance of cultures in organizations, the meaning of diversity and tries to makes us closer to the global context.

I enjoyed a lot the topics and how the subject wants to makes us more critic on what we read and know and how it is important to question things and look for those answers.

The part of the expositions/presentations is good in the way that people can be creative, become expert on a topic and develop skills to share that with the class. However, there is also a huge flaw in the methodology and it is how mediocre the student community in EAFIT tends to be. There have been amazing expositions that show the interest of the people on the topics, the commitment and investigation to do something smart, but there are also some of them that should feel ashamed to do such a presentation in a university environment. Some of them even make mistakes in the titles that are inacceptable, and more if we are support to be experts, other talk about things that have nothing to do with the topic and the real issues to be addressed are left behind and other just make it heavy and sometimes unbearable.

But finally, when it comes for us to be critic about it we stay quiet, because we don’t wanna be pointed as the ones trying to affect our classmates and become an outcast.

Hopefully, with time we are more willing to give our best, do a great job and expect that from the others and if we don’t get it ask for it.

The part of the research proposal has been also very cool for me. We need to become a culture of investigation and propose things according to the things we find out. We tend to leave investigation for the engineering and are not conscious that our studies also need to improve and have new things.

Besides we can have better ideas of things that we want to know and can help us be more aware of the situations and needs of our society.

Additionally, it is an advantage to have a good guidance through the process, being able to reach the professor at any time and receive help.

Finally, in the entire course I find important how we become more aware of the importance of the form and the content, and how we are getting ready to meet international standards.